Author: Brigitta Litfin

Hi Everyone! I'm Brigitta Litfin and I’m an artist living with my husband and two teenagers in Ripon, California. Sightseeing, baking and painting with watercolors take me to my happy place. To read more go to the about page.

The first thing I noticed about Just Add Watercolor was its petite size and gorgeous watercolor illustrations. With a painting on one side of the page spread and a short write-up on the other, the book is easy to navigate and draw inspiration from. You feel as though you’re walking through a modern watercolor exhibit in the comfort of your favorite reading chair.

Just wanting to give you a little update. Feels like forever since I’ve written a blog entry! The Bible art journaling slowed down to a halt after we started remodeling our house on Leon Drive. Long story short: as soon as we were done remodeling, we ended up selling our San Jose house we’d lived in for 20 years.

I woke up to the sound of a loud chirping bird right outside my window this morning. With spring in full-bloom, I’ve been wanting to paint birds for a while now. These little guys were so much fun to paint.

My family and I recently took a trip to the ocean. Ever since then the sea’s had a grip on me. The day of our outing was sunny and bright, but when I sat down to paint my mood was more subdued so I had a different approach. Sometimes it’s not about painting what you see, but what you FEEL. …

I saw these adorable mini canvases and easels at the art store and couldn’t resist; they’d look so cute sitting on my kitchen shelf. I was thinking of ideas of what to paint when my eye landed on a cupcake tea towel my friend Carol gave me for my birthday. Eureka! The best part is that I get to enjoy cupcakes…

After a long artistic hiatus, I decided to dust off my paint supplies and start painting again. I was seeing some beautiful sunrises/sunsets, and people posting pictures of said beautiful sunrises/sunsets, and that inspired me to paint clouds. Then my daughter Janelle had to do an art project and needed help with the sky. She borrowed my French easel and had it out forever while doing…

And I remembered this light version of a buttercream frosting recipe and since it’s called cloud frosting, and we had a lot of clouds last night, and I wanted to chase away the clouds of sickness, I decided to try it out.

I happened upon Liz Lamoreux’s book “Inner Excavations” while doing an artist workshop. To read this book is like pulling pieces of your soul out from deep within and examining them one by one. This is not a book to be rushed; if you take time to contemplate the concepts in each chapter, it can be a powerful tool of self-discovery.